The Roots of Compassion & Kindness (ROCK) Center will be hosting tabling events on the Library Lawn throughout October and into early November, leading up to World Kindness Day (November 13, 2025). Students who participate in tabling can earn service-learning hours while advocating for the Center and helping to raise awareness about our upcoming events and opportunities.  

The Roots of Compassion & Kindness (ROCK) Center will be hosting tabling events on the Library Lawn throughout October and into early November, leading up to World Kindness Day (November 13, 2025). Students who participate in tabling can earn service-learning hours while advocating for the Center and helping to raise awareness about our upcoming events and opportunities.  

The Roots of Compassion & Kindness (ROCK) Center will be hosting tabling events on the Library Lawn throughout October and into early November, leading up to World Kindness Day (November 13, 2025). Students who participate in tabling can earn service-learning hours while advocating for the Center and helping to raise awareness about our upcoming events and opportunities.  

The Roots of Compassion & Kindness (ROCK) Center will be hosting tabling events on the Library Lawn throughout October and into early November, leading up to World Kindness Day (November 13, 2025). Students who participate in tabling can earn service-learning hours while advocating for the Center and helping to raise awareness about our upcoming events and opportunities.  

Join Jack E. Davis for his lively long historical view of the Gulf, drawn from his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. Significant beyond tragic oil spills and hurricanes, the Gulf has historically been one of the world's most bounteous marine environments, supporting human life for millennia. Davis starts from the premise that nature lies at the center of human existence, and takes his audience on a compelling journey from the Florida Keys to the Texas Rio Grande, along marshy shorelines and majestic estuarine bays, profoundly beautiful and life-giving. At the center of his talk is the way people, from pre-Spanish natives to present-day coastal residents, have organized their societies and individual lives around nature, and how Gulf nature has been a positive force in human events. About the Author: Jack E. Davis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and a Distinguished Professor of History and the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities at the University of Florida. After earning a PhD in history from Brandeis University in 1994, he taught at Eckerd College, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and at the University of Jodan in Amman as a Fulbright scholar before moving to the UF in 2003. In 2024, The Florida House on Capitol Hill chose him as Florida’s distinguished writer of the year. Published by Liveright/W.W. Norton, The Gulf won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times Book Review described The Gulf as a “beautiful homage to a neglected sea.” The Gulf was a New York Times Notable Book for 2017 and made several “best of” lists for the year, including those of the Washington Post, NPR, Forbes, and the Tampa Bay Times. In 2019, Davis was the recipient of an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, awarded to support the writing of The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird. Published in 2022, The Bald Eagle was chosen as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, a Los Angeles Times top-five nonfiction book of 2022, and an Amazon and Apple best book of 2022. The author or editor of ten books, including the award-winning An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, Davis has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Tampa Bay Times, Orion, Saturday Evening Post, Sierra, Audubon, and Smithsonian.  

Kappa Delta has partnered with Urban Buzz for a proceeds event from 12-4pm. Urban Buzz is located in UV Shops.